LarryQC_SD said:True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. Nothing to add that would improve it.
LarryQC_SD said:True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated.
Coming at LarryQC_SD’s question from a different direction. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne thing that is still open after LarryQC_SD’s answer:
What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?
Dr.PulmRoch said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Pushing back on the consensus forming here. Consistency is not the same as correctness, and a board that agrees with itself quickly is usually agreeing with the first person who sounded certain.